Virtual Strides’ Ultimate Running Playlist

Virtual Strides is a community of people who participate in virtual races all over the world. It’s not just about earning great medals while raising money for charity, but also motivating each other to reach our individual fitness goals. There’s lots of encouragement, support and congratulations.

We recently put a call out to the Virtual Strides community (via this Facebook post) to see if we could put together the ultimate virtual race playlist – music you love to listen to while you’re out running and walking to earn your virtual race bling. What we’ve ended up with is nearly five hours of energizing and diverse songs, creating possibly the most eclectic running playlist you’ll ever encounter!

Yet, somehow, it all works. There’s old school, hard core, hip hop, rock, classic hits, and a few songs with explicit lyrics. From Bruno Mars, Sia, and Survivor to Disturbed, Halestorm, Pitbull, and Jay Z. And it works!

One of the great things about our Virtual Strides community is its diversity, so it shouldn’t be surprising that together we’ve all created a playlist that reflects both our collective spirit and our individual passions.

You can listen to Virtual Strides’ Ultimate Running Playlist on Spotify. We’d love to hear your feedback about how to improve this virtual running playlist, so leave a comment below or in this Facebook post. Let us know if you’ve got a favorite song that needs to be added or if there is a song on the list that simply has to go. We’ll listen to your feedback and continue to modify this playlist over time.

Try out the Virtual Strides’ Ultimate Running Playlist during your next run or walk. It’s an opportunity to discover something new to energize your virtual race, and a chance to try some new pacing as well. We may make a playlist specific for walkers and another for runners someday, but for now, we’ve lumped everything together. Let the beat guide your (virtual) stride!

Here’s the list of what you will hear, with each song’s BPM in parenthesis:[Last updated 2/27/17]